Rejection Quotes - Page 32

• Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model's career, as ironic as that sounds. It's how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.

  Erin O'Connor

  Jobs, Successful, Careers

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• Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Pain, Emotional, Causes

  Leonard Mlodinow (2012). “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, p.79, Vintage

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• My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

  Rupert Penry-Jones

  Thinking, Parent, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to over 450 auditions so I've heard 'no' a lot more than I've heard 'yes'. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.

  Wentworth Miller

  Jobs, Cake, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dreams require down payments. Dreams are free, but the journey isn't. There is a price to pay. First, you must pay the price of dealing with criticism from people who matter. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.' Second, you must pay the price of overcoming your fears. Failure, rejection, and looking foolish are common fears - but they are just feelings that can be conquered and removed from your thoughts. Finally, you must be willing to pay the price of hard work in order to realize your dream.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Hard Work, Journey

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Jun 09, 2014

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• Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.

  Robert Grudin

  Creativity, Ideas, Assumption

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• I'm against eating a human being alive - I don't do it. Somebody might make cannibalism jokes and laugh it off like it's nothing. I don't agree with that. I want to proclaim a rejection of cannibalism.

  John Maus

  Laughing, Alive, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The largest fear in the world is to speak in public. We fear of stumbling, or public humiliation, and so we're fearing a face-to-face rejection. So, we'll say things in a text or e-mail that we would never say face-to-face. So, relationships are coming together faster and breaking apart faster, and they're a little bit more disposable.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Together, Faces, World

  "No Strings Attached - Ashton Kutcher interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rain, Creativity, Sunshine

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• Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.

  Maya Angelou

  Party, Safety, Effort

  1976 Singin'and Swingin'and Getting Merry Like Christmas, ch.9.

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• For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

  Liam Neeson

  Successful, Games, Names

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• At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

  Al Pacino

  Children, Humble, Careers

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• A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

  Taylor Swift

  School, People, Labels

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• And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

  Christopher Moore

  Pain, Black, Despair

  Christopher Moore (2010). “Bite Me”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.

  Bede Griffiths

  Atheist, Challenges, Atheism

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• I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Walking Away, Teach

  Jeanette Winterson (2010). “Weight”, p.98, Canongate Books

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• There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Doubt, Shadow, Caress

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• The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Taken, Party, Cutting

  "Trumpery" by Hendrik Hertzberg, prod02.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

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• Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.

  E. Lockhart

  Impact, Appreciated, Notorious

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.213, Hot Key Books

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• The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, Ignorance, Editors

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• ...the vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a printed rejection slip can be wrong. You cannot take it for granted that he is wrong, but you have an all-important margin of hope that might be enough to keep you going.

  Brian Stableford

  Coffee, Writing, Important

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• Successful people reject rejection.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Successful, People

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• The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

  Felicia Day

  Heart, Mean, Brave

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think Im extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like youre getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that. Im working through it, which is good. As an actor, I think that you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Dad, Heart, Thinking

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• Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

  Rose Byrne

  Actors, Lessons, Stuff

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